Andre Retterath

Insights

🔥Impact of Reserve Strategy on Fund Performance, Building Habits to Find PMF, Top 40 AI x GTM Plays & More

Feb 3, 2026

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12 min read

🔥Impact of Reserve Strategy on Fund Performance, Building Habits to Find PMF, Top 40 AI x GTM Plays & More

New Research from Carta, Growth Unhinged, Stanford & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Essays

💥Startup Screening With LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Jan 29, 2026

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7 min read

💥Startup Screening With LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Access Our New Paper + Code to Implement

Andre Retterath

Insights

🚀 Average Dilution per Stage, Improve Net IRR With Capital Recycling, How Fund Distributions Actually Work & More

Jan 27, 2026

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12 min read

🚀 Average Dilution per Stage, Improve Net IRR With Capital Recycling, How Fund Distributions Actually Work & More

New Research from AngelList, Carta, Mostly Metrics & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

Jan 25, 2026

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8 min read

Should Seed Investors Follow On?

+ Building AI Agents for Finance, The Rise of Solo Founders, VC Concentration & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

Jan 22, 2026

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3 min read

Tickets Available Now!

AI + Automation + Insights for VC/PE/LP Investors

Andre Retterath

Insights

💡Toughest Stage to Invest, How to Fix Cap Tables, Tools for GTM Research, Marketing Teams Under Pressure & More

Jan 20, 2026

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11 min read

💡Toughest Stage to Invest, How to Fix Cap Tables, Tools for GTM Research, Marketing Teams Under Pressure & More

New Research from Dealroom, Sequoia, Carta, The VC Corner & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in January 2026

Jan 18, 2026

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14 min read

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in January 2026

IPO Candidates for 2026 With Data from Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

🔥How to Use Claude Code to Automate Your Work WITHOUT Prior Experience

Jan 15, 2026

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11 min read

🔥How to Use Claude Code to Automate Your Work WITHOUT Prior Experience

Step-by-Step Guide to Setup and Start Your First Project

Andre Retterath

Resources

Building a Hyper-Automated Micro VC With Alex Patow from Inflection

Jan 11, 2026

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8 min read

Building a Hyper-Automated Micro VC With Alex Patow from Inflection

+ a16z Returns, Claude Code Tutorial & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

Jan 8, 2026

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8 min read

🔥Top 30 Tools for VC Investors in 2026

My Full Stack Across Claude Code, n8n, Granola, Harmonic & More

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Branding and Distribution Playbooks of Lovable & Cursor, How Much Equity for First Team Members and Advisors, Growth vs Profitability & More

Jan 6, 2026

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14 min read

💥Branding and Distribution Playbooks of Lovable & Cursor, How Much Equity for First Team Members and Advisors, Growth vs Profitability & More

New Research from Carta, Growth Unhinged, SaaStr & More

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

Jan 4, 2026

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26 min read

🔥30 Hottest Startups in January 2026

Measured by Investor Interest, Headcount, Website Traffic & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

⏮️2025 in Review - and What I'm Taking Into 2026⏭️

Jan 1, 2026

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10 min read

⏮️2025 in Review - and What I'm Taking Into 2026⏭️

Subscriber Numbers, Open Rates, and How We Automate Investing

Andre Retterath

Insights

⚡Unicorn Patterns, Do Expensive Startups Outperform?, The State of VC, Equity Vesting Practices & More

Dec 30, 2025

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12 min read

⚡Unicorn Patterns, Do Expensive Startups Outperform?, The State of VC, Equity Vesting Practices & More

New Research From Sequoia, AngelList, Carta & More

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

How to Integrate Data Sources and Make Them Actionable With AI

Dec 28, 2025

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7 min read

How to Integrate Data Sources and Make Them Actionable With AI

+ The State of LLMs, What We Can Learn From Billionaires, The Prison of Financial Mediocrity & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

Dec 25, 2025

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4 min read

🎁 Xmas Gifts

16 VC Pitchdecks, 10 Prompts for Startup Sourcing & How to Scrape Alternative Data

Andre Retterath

Insights

🚀Time to $1B Revenue, Growth Playbooks, Who Should Send Recruiting Messages & More

Dec 23, 2025

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13 min read

🚀Time to $1B Revenue, Growth Playbooks, Who Should Send Recruiting Messages & More

Insights, Patterns & Playbooks From the Fastest-Growing Companies

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in December 2025

Dec 21, 2025

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14 min read

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in December 2025

Data from SpaceX, OpenAI, Antrophic, Netflix & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

Find the Best Automation Tools for Your Job (Automation Experiment Part 3)

Dec 18, 2025

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10 min read

Find the Best Automation Tools for Your Job (Automation Experiment Part 3)

n8n, Zapier, Make, Lindy, Bardeen & More

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥How to Master Talent Attraction in the Age of AI

Dec 16, 2025

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16 min read

💥How to Master Talent Attraction in the Age of AI

Why Most Companies Lose Great Candidates and How to Fix the Funnel

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

How to Leverage AI for Portfolio Insights and Value Creation

Dec 14, 2025

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7 min read

How to Leverage AI for Portfolio Insights and Value Creation

Learnings from Atomico, Bain Capital Ventures, and Vestberry

Andre Retterath

Essays

Dec 11, 2025

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4 min read

Summarize 50+ Newsletters With ChatGPT (Automation Experiment Part 2)

Full Prompt to Read, Summarize & Create a Daily Digest for All Your Newsletters

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Free Tool & Cloud Credits for Startups, How to Rank Employees, PE as GTM-Multiplier, and the Truth Behind "Who Else Is Investing?"

Dec 9, 2025

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12 min read

💥Free Tool & Cloud Credits for Startups, How to Rank Employees, PE as GTM-Multiplier, and the Truth Behind "Who Else Is Investing?"

New Research from Stanford, Carta, Pave & More

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

Dec 7, 2025

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25 min read

🔥30 Hottest Startups in December 2025

Measured by Investor Interest, Headcount, Website Traffic & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

Live Experiment: Automating My VC Job with AI (Part 1)

Dec 4, 2025

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7 min read

Live Experiment: Automating My VC Job with AI (Part 1)

All My Tasks in One List, Time Spent per Task, Where to Start, Free Slack Group

Andre Retterath

Andre Retterath

🔥Impact of Reserve Strategy on Fund Performance, Building Habits to Find PMF, Top 40 AI x GTM Plays & More

💥Startup Screening With LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

🚀 Average Dilution per Stage, Improve Net IRR With Capital Recycling, How Fund Distributions Actually Work & More

Should Seed Investors Follow On?

Tickets Available Now!

💡Toughest Stage to Invest, How to Fix Cap Tables, Tools for GTM Research, Marketing Teams Under Pressure & More

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in January 2026

🔥How to Use Claude Code to Automate Your Work WITHOUT Prior Experience

Building a Hyper-Automated Micro VC With Alex Patow from Inflection

🔥Top 30 Tools for VC Investors in 2026

💥Branding and Distribution Playbooks of Lovable & Cursor, How Much Equity for First Team Members and Advisors, Growth vs Profitability & More

🔥30 Hottest Startups in January 2026

⏮️2025 in Review - and What I'm Taking Into 2026⏭️

⚡Unicorn Patterns, Do Expensive Startups Outperform?, The State of VC, Equity Vesting Practices & More

How to Integrate Data Sources and Make Them Actionable With AI

🎁 Xmas Gifts

🚀Time to $1B Revenue, Growth Playbooks, Who Should Send Recruiting Messages & More

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in December 2025

Find the Best Automation Tools for Your Job (Automation Experiment Part 3)

💥How to Master Talent Attraction in the Age of AI

How to Leverage AI for Portfolio Insights and Value Creation

Summarize 50+ Newsletters With ChatGPT (Automation Experiment Part 2)

💥Free Tool & Cloud Credits for Startups, How to Rank Employees, PE as GTM-Multiplier, and the Truth Behind "Who Else Is Investing?"

🔥30 Hottest Startups in December 2025

Live Experiment: Automating My VC Job with AI (Part 1)

Become a better investor with data & AI